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All eyes are on Google to unveil its next generation Android smartphone, the Nexus 5, but still it has not made an announcement. No one knows right now exactly when this announcement is going to take place. There have already been a lot of rumors about the Nexus 5, we’ve seen parts and components being leaked as well as press renders being outed on Google’s own website. Today we get to see the Nexus 5 battery, which should presumably be enough to last an entire day.

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Amazon’s known for not offering many specific details about its device sales or customers in its earnings reports, and this quarter’s is no exception. The company did note, however, that it added “millions” of Prime users during the quarter, a number that’s no doubt only set to grow further now that …

Can you tell which woman has the higher IQ? Hint: They are both the author.

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commentary First, there was the dongle joke. Then came the stilettos.

To sum it up: A dude at a tech conference tweets a picture of a woman’s feet in stilettos, and judges her to be brainless based on the fact that she is wearing said footwear. Predictably, outrage ensues.

This tweet was followed by many others accusing him of being sexist and just as superficial as he seemed to think this woman is. The whole “conversation” if you will, can be summed up as:

Dude at conference: Ew! Look at her shoes! WHAT AN IDIOT! Bunch of people on Internet: Scoff! Judging a woman for her attire? WHAT A SEXIST JERK!

Is he sexist? No. Well, I don’t know the guy; maybe he is. But my guess is quite the opposite. I have a hunch Jorge Cortell, the man at the center of this particular fury-party, is a perfectly nice, equality-loving guy who thought damning high heels might help absolve women of feeling they need to wear them to impress the men who, by and large, still dominate this industry.

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The Nigerian government is demanding an apology from Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) after he joked last week that the new Affordable Care Act exchange website was being run by Nigerian email scammers, Politico reports.

Ambassador Ade Adefuye told Politico that Nigerians are “disappointed and shocked” by the remarks, adding that Cruz “should not denigrate Nigerians in order to appease these domestic constituents.” The ambassador the statement “was a joke that went too far, and we demand an apology.”

The Houston Chronicle reported on Monday that, before a crowd of tea party supporters, Cruz knocked the new health care system: “You may have noticed that all the Nigerian email scammers have become a lot less active lately. They all have been hired to run the Obamacare website.”

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Captain America’s back, and the first trailer for his big-screen sequel has arrived online.

“Captain America: The Winter Soldier” takes place after the events of “The Avengers,” when aliens attacked in the Battle of New York.

Now, Steve Rogers (aka Captain America, played by Chris Evans) is living in Washington, D.C., and still adjusting to life in the modern world. He teams up with Black Widow (Scarlett Johansson) to take down a powerful new enemy.

The trailer also features glimpses of Samuel L. Jackson as S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury; Anthony Mackie as the Falcon; and Robert Redford as Alexander Pierce, who tells Rogers, “To build a better world sometimes means turning the old way down. And that makes enemies.”

“Captain America: The Winter Soldier” opens in theaters on April 4. Watch the trailer below.

This article originally appeared on CBSNews.com.

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